Taken on W9: Liam Neeson races against the clock in Paris

A phone call puts Bryan Mills on the front lines of his daughter’s kidnapping, thousands of miles away. In Taken, airing on W9, Liam Neeson plays the former American intelligence agent who heads to Paris to find Kim.

The young woman, played by Maggie Grace, has been captured by a human trafficking ring. Bryan draws on his former skills to track down her abductors. The story follows this urgent search through the French capital, while Famke Janssen plays Leonore, Bryan’s ex-wife.

Directed by Pierre Morel and written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, this 2008 thriller launched the Taken film series. It stars Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills, a role he reprised in two sequels.

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